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Seven Versions of No Backup

Android 7 or 8, like their predecessors for some time now, offer you to make a backup. The config setup looks somewhat like above, and that’s seems to be quite good. It certainly looks like something you’d want.

Now, it’s 2018, and we all do have multple Android devices on the same account. So if you are using, say, a 5X, and it dies bootlooping, you’d might be tempted to revive an older device for a few days, until the replacement arrives.

Then this happens:

The backup of the most recently used device is being used. You can’t choose anything.

Android offers you to use the most recently used device. Which fuck no, I do not want to restore from. A list of devices is not shown, a choice is not given.

Which kind of makes the entire device backup concept even more useless than it already is.